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From: Jim Carmack [mailto:Jim@TheCarmackGroup.com]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 2:43 PM
To: Multiple Messages Carmack; Charles Peckham; William Reckert; Valeria
Reckert; Marsha Owen; Marianne Baird Way; Betty J Mealy
Subject: 1500 pounds , 24 notebooks, Carmack records by Patsy Walker
I just talked to Ben Webster in Bristol Va. He has found 24 notebooks
about 1500 lbs.) which were compiled by his grandmother, Patsy Walker. Ben
says she traveled to a lot of court houses and cemeteries to get genealogy
records. He does not know the names of the various families she was
researching; but a lot of the material seems to relate to Carmacks. Ben says
the records make frequent references to the cemetery on the Carmack
homestead property. Does any one know how to find that cemetery ?
Ben has offered me free access to all of the material if I will come
to his house , pick it up a little at a time ,copy it there locally in
Bristol , and return it before borrowing more. From Los Angeles, the
earliest I can get to Bristol would be mid-August. Before going, I
would arrange to rent a good copier that could be set-up in a motel near his
home. Then , copies could be made without disturbing Ben's family at
their home.
Is there anyone in this surname group, living close to Bristol, that
could get the job done more conveniently than I can ? If so, please let me
know. Perhaps Dale would like to coordinate this research effort.
Jim Carmack
www.thecarmackgroup.com
626 289 0873
fax 626 289 0113
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